Quotes About Abnormality

Then there was a woman, in her mid-fifties about, who in almost every respect was perfectly normal. But this was the way with these people: in so many respects they were normal, there was just that one thing, that one terrible thing.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

romanticizing pathology

Cavalier King Charles spaniels, we learnt, often suffer from the brain abnormality known as a Chiari malformation, which humans also get. Labradors can develop malignant meningiomas. The spaniels' problem is the result of selective breeding aimed to produce the small round head which wins points at dog shows. The malformation leads to spinal cord damage, and the poor creatures suffer from intractable pain and scratch themselves incessantly.

Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

La normalidad es un equilibrista sobre el abismo de la anormalidad. ¡Cuántas ocultas demencias contiene el orden cotidiano!

Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

Atheism is not proper to man by nature, but develops at a later stage of life, on the ground of philosophical reflection; like scepticism, it is an intellectual and ethical abnormality, which only confirms the rule. By nature every man believes in God.

I'll never be a normal person ever again. You took that away from me. You made me ABNORMAL and it's lonely being abnormal.

exotrophia: one eye looked ahead normally, while the other pointed outward.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Crazy as a loon—and Doctor Roge vaguely recalls other crazy loons, not remembering any one of them in particular. Now, nothing M. Achille can do will surprise us: because he's a crazy loon!

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." —Anaïs Nin

bien: basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente, cuanto más extraña es la obtención del goce. Se unirán en seguida, excluyendo toda otra pasión, para aislarse en la dicha alucinada de un paraíso artificial.

Basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente, cuanto más extraña es la obtención del goce. Se unirán en seguida, excluyendo toda otra pasión, para aislarse en la dicha alusinada de un paraíso artificial.

They're all kind of weird." "Everybody's kind of weird.

I always say I'm one of the most normal abnormal people you'll ever meet. I get embarrassed about how many medals I've won, and I get angry when people presume that because you're gay you've got to wear pink and stilettos and camp it up, or that if you're disabled you should act like a victim and not have a life.

Una revisión de la literatura relevante demuestra que la felicidad es estadísticamente anormal,

I never met a normal person and neither have you.